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Intended as a textbook for courses involving preparative solid-state chemistry, this book offers clear and detailed descriptions on how to prepare a selection of inorganic materials that exhibit important optical, magnetic and electrical properties, on a laboratory scale. The text covers a wide range of preparative methods and can be read as separate, independent chapters or as a unified coherent body of work. Discussions of various chemical systems reveal how the properties of a material can often be influenced by modifications to the preparative procedure, and vice versa. References to mineralogy are made throughout the book since knowledge of naturally occurring inorganic substances is helpful in devising many of the syntheses and in characterizing the product materials. A set of questions at the end of each chapter helps to connect theory with practice, and an accompanying solutions manual is available to instructors. This book is also of appeal to postgraduate students, post-doctoral researchers and those working in industry requiring knowledge of solid-state synthesis.

This compact handbook describes all the important methods of synthesis employed today for synthesizing inorganic materials. Some features: * Focuses on modern inorganic materials with applications in nanotechnology, energy materials, and sustainability * Synthesis is a crucial component of materials science and technology; this book provides a simple introduction as well as an updated description of methods * Written in a very simple style, providing references to the literatureto get details of the methods of preparation when required

The book has four main parts.In the first part the discussion centers on inorganic synthesis reactions, dealing with inorganic synthesis and preparative chemistry under specific conditions: high temperature, low temperature and cryogenic, hydrothermal and solvothermal, high pressure and super-high pressure, photochemical, microwave irradiation.

Modern Inorganic Synthetic Chemistry, Second Edition captures, in five distinct sections, the latest advancements in inorganic synthetic chemistry, providing materials chemists, chemical engineers, and materials scientists with a valuable reference source to help them advance their research efforts and achieve breakthroughs.Section one includes.

Study of materials science is an important aspect of curricula at universities worldwide. This text is designed to serve students at a fundamental level, positioning materials design as an essential aspect of the study of electronics, medicine, and energy storage. Now in its 3rd Edition of this book is an introduction to relevant topics including inorganic materials structure/property relations and material behaviors. The new edition now includes chapters on computational materials science, intermetallic compounds, and covalent compounds. The text is meant to aid students in their studies by providing additional tools to study the key concepts and understand recent developments in materials research. In addition to the many topics covered, the textbook includes: Accessible learning tools to help students better understand key concepts; Updated content including case studies and new information on computational materials science; Practical end-of-chapter exercises to assist students with the learning of the material; Short biographies introducing pioneers in the field of inorganic materials science.

This volume represents one of the two edited by inviting a selection of young researchers participating to the European Young Chemist Award 2010.The other volume concerns the area of Nanotechnology/Material Science and is titled: Molecules at Work.

This reference text covers the recent developments in the synthesis of BiOX and their applications in the production of energy and the purification of wastewater. The book begins with an overview of bismuth as well as bismuth oxyhalides and the fabrication process. It then reviews the state-of-the-art improvements in bismuth oxyhalides including elemental doping, surface modification and many others. Photocatalytic applications of bismuth oxyhalides along with their experimental and theoretical studies are discussed. The book also explores bismuth oxyhalides for wastewater treatment, reduction of carbon dioxide, and nitrogen fixation and finally, the various issues and potential solutions that could help with the development of effective photocatalytic bismuth oxyhalides.

Undoped and Ni-doped CuO thin films were deposited onto glass substrates using a spin-coating technique at different doping concentrations (undoped, 2, 4, 6, and 10 %). X-ray diffraction patterns for undoped and Ni-doped CuO thin films indicated that the films were polycrystalline, with preferential growth in the (002), (111), and (−311) directions. Atomic force microscopy images revealed that the surface morphologies of the films were not uniform. Scanning electron microscopy images confirmed the presence of agglomerated particles on the surfaces; the coverage increased with the doping level. A Hall effect system with a van der Pauw configuration was used to investigate the electrical properties of the CuO films. The free charge carrier concentration decreased and hole mobility increased with increasing Ni concentration, with the exception of the 10 % Ni-doped CuO sample. Ultraviolet–visible spectroscopy measurements of the film samples indicated an average transmittance of 30–40 % in the visible range. The optical band gap decreased slightly for low-level doping and increased from 2.03 to 2.22 eV for 10 % Ni incorporation. The electrical and optical properties of the CuO films were modified by Ni doping, i.e. the band gap decreased and the mobility increased almost linearly, with the exception of the 10 % Ni-doped sample. Graphical Abstract SEM images of a undoped b 2 % c 4 % d 6 %, and e 10 % Ni-doped CuO thin films.